(Photo: Mossot/Wikimedia Commons) The Vatican announced October 21 the publishing date and title of Pope Francis's new encyclical, "Dilexit Nos" (“He Loved Us”), an encyclical on the human and ...

La Croix: The pope is about to publish an encyclical on the Sacred Heart. What is this devotion about? Father Etienne Kern: The devotion to the Sacred Heart is a spirituality entirely focused on ...

Twice in past years, I hopped a flight to Rome in order to cover one of the most arcane, storied and secretive events in human history: the election of a new pope. That event is also known as a ...

In a surprising move at the conclusion of the Synod on Synodality on Saturday evening, Pope Francis ratified the final report, approved its immediate publication, and said he will not publish a ...

In 2018, Pope Francis decreed in the apostolic constitution Episcopalis Communio that reformed the Synod of Bishops that the pope has the authority to approve and promulgate the final document, at ...

The pope has died unexpectedly in his quarters, and the Sacred College of Cardinals will now hold a conclave to determine his successor. The conclave will be overseen by Cardinal Lawrence ...

Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is charged with stewarding the conclave after the death of the pope — a job he is reluctant to tackle. The white smoke can only go up when one of the cardinals ...

The post Conclave Review: The Picking of a Pope Becomes Fascinating Viewing — Seriously appeared first on Consequence. Conclave begins with a death, but while the Ralph Fiennes-starring movie ...

How accurate is it? By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome When a pope dies, cardinals younger than 80 gather at the Vatican to elect his successor in what is known as a conclave. Recent papal ...

The Pope is dead. For years, his Holiness had helped to move the Catholic church toward modernity and serving its constituents in a manner befitting the 21st century. Now, however, “the throne ...

There were only 22 minutes between Ollie Pope walking out to bat and bad light bringing the second day in Rawalpindi to a premature close, yet it was hardly a surprise that he was already back in ...